One of China's premier historians of the twentieth century, Zhou Yiliang (1913-2001) experienced many of the tumultuous events of that century. Born into a wealthy family, his father saw to his pre-college education through a range of tutors which afforded him not only a profound traditional Chinese education but a modern one as well--including virtually native fluency in English and Japanese. He later earned degrees in Beijing before leaving to study and earn a Ph.D. at Harvard during the years of World War II. Given the dearth of Americans who knew Japanese, he was called up in the 1940s to...
One of China's premier historians of the twentieth century, Zhou Yiliang (1913-2001) experienced many of the tumultuous events of that century. Born i...
Over the past thirty-five years, Joshua Fogel has pioneered the study of Sino-Japanese cultural and political relations--understood as the intersections of the histories of these two countries. This volume brings together many of his essays and reviews in this new field. For a variety of reasons discussed within, scholars have been reluctant to look at these two nation's historical connections, either through comparative analysis or actual interactions. Fogel's work has focused squarely here. Among the issues addressed are Japanese scholarly views of modern China and Chinese history, Chinese...
Over the past thirty-five years, Joshua Fogel has pioneered the study of Sino-Japanese cultural and political relations--understood as the intersectio...